Writers should visit concentration camp

Published: Thursday, January 27, 2005 at 4:30 a.m.

Last Modified: Thursday, January 27, 2005 at 12:00 a.m.

To The Editor: In the last week there've been several rebuttals to the individual who wrote that fetuses are only potential humans and children aren't humans until they are at least 10. Unbelievable! Does this mean all children, unborn or born, up to 10 can be murdered by reasoning adults who find them inconvenient or unacceptable?

Another person wrote about the survival of the fittest theory, comparing unborn children to rabbits or "blobs of tissue" and stating children with disabilities or deformities are "burdens" who don't deserve life.

Last May, while visiting Poland, we saw the horror of Auschwitz -- including the barracks used to torture and starve the mentally or physically disabled, deformed and handicapped. Looking into the eyes in the photos of those who died there left no doubt that these were thinking, feeling and very frightened humans, considered unfit to live by the Nazis.

I have to believe the two letter writers who advocate the killing of children so callously don't have children of their own and have never walked in the cold, dark barracks of a Nazi death camp. I dare them to do either. Every member of the human race and every life is sacred, even each of them!

Mary Dufner

Hendersonville

Mary Dufner is secretary of the Henderson/Buncombe County Right To Life organization.

<p>To The Editor: In the last week there've been several rebuttals to the individual who wrote that fetuses are only potential humans and children aren't humans until they are at least 10. Unbelievable! Does this mean all children, unborn or born, up to 10 can be murdered by reasoning adults who find them inconvenient or unacceptable?</p><!-- Nothing to do. The paragraph has already been output --><p>Another person wrote about the survival of the fittest theory, comparing unborn children to rabbits or "blobs of tissue" and stating children with disabilities or deformities are "burdens" who don't deserve life.</p><p>Last May, while visiting Poland, we saw the horror of Auschwitz -- including the barracks used to torture and starve the mentally or physically disabled, deformed and handicapped. Looking into the eyes in the photos of those who died there left no doubt that these were thinking, feeling and very frightened humans, considered unfit to live by the Nazis.</p><p>I have to believe the two letter writers who advocate the killing of children so callously don't have children of their own and have never walked in the cold, dark barracks of a Nazi death camp. I dare them to do either. Every member of the human race and every life is sacred, even each of them!</p><p>Mary Dufner</p><p>Hendersonville</p><p>Mary Dufner is secretary of the Henderson/Buncombe County Right To Life organization.</p>